Re: [hylafax-users] PAM authentication

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Since several days in company I work almost all the services are
> >authorize via LDAP. Only few are still alone. The biggest problem 
> >user:password rows. I started googl'ing about Hylafax and PAM but
> >found only one message - which was also question - is it possible 
> >to start auth Hylafax with PAM.
> >Please, developers from Hylafax team or other people is it possible 
> >to do such thing?
> No, not without developing such a feature yourself.  If you are up to 
> the task you may appreciate a head-start from:
> http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=439

Interesting.  Coding to support PAM is pretty trivial -
http://java.sun.com/security/jaas/doc/pam.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam_appl.html

> As far as I'm concerned that bug report is applicable for all 
> non-hosts.hfaxd authentication purposes.
> That said, it shouldn't be hard to write a small ldap client script 
> which would recreate the hosts.hfaxd file any time it was needed.

True,  but it becomes a bit problamatic after a certain number of users
(query size limits, time of execution,  basically a non-stop stream of
password changes, etc...).


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